Black-naped terns rest on the cay of Xianbin Reef. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The frequent human activities by the Philippines in recent months have started causing a certain degree of ...

A STUDY has found that the soft corals of the West Philippine Sea and the Philippine Rise are among the most diverse in the world, which can be used as medicinal compounds as well as adding aesthetic ...

ST. JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands—Thirty-five feet deep in clear turquoise waters, a three-foot-long yellow underwater robot maneuvers over a coral reef at a popular snorkeling site named Tektite.

“There’s a lot of freshwater runoff, a lot of murky water, and huge fluctuations in salinity.” (7 of the best reef-safe sunscreens.) Pencil coral flourish along the reef in Tela Bay, Honduras.

A healthy coral reef in American Samoa, left, experiencing coral bleaching due to a severe marine heatwave, center, and eventually dying, right. The Ocean Agency and Ocean Image Bank., CC BY-NC ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.

Coral reefs are sometimes dubbed "rainforests of the sea" because they support high levels of biodiversity — approximately 25% of all marine species can be found in, on and around coral reefs.

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative a… ...

Coral reefs are sometimes dubbed “rainforests of the sea” because they support high levels of biodiversity — approximately 25% of all marine species can be found in, on and around coral reefs.

World’s largest bleaching event on record has harmed 84% of coral reefs Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on ...

Coral reefs are sometimes dubbed “rainforests of the sea” because they support high levels of biodiversity — approximately 25% of all marine species can be found in, on and around coral reefs.

The article, Coral reef protection is fundamental to human rights, published in the journal Global Change Biology, is a cross-disciplinary collaboration with School of Law, University at Buffalo ...